Proposed Chinese Law Outlaws All Yuan-Pegged Tokens – Except for Its CBDC

Shenzhen residents are all set to receive digital Yuan worth $2.29 million as part of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) testing. The Chinese government will be giving these 15 million Yuan in CBDC to 130,000 residents. This CBDC will be eligible to be used at over 5,000 stores with no such minimum purchase required. […]

Conflux will provide the technology to launch an offshore RMB stablecoin pegged to China’s CBDC, the digital yuan. As financial authorities around the globe become increasingly concerned about stablecoin regulation, a jurisdiction in China is preparing to pilot a new yuan-pegged stablecoin for international trade.Chris Banbury, head of global operations at permissionless blockchain project Conflux, told Cointelegraph on Sept. 21 that the firm will provide its technology to launch an offshore renminbi (RMB) stablecoin pegged to China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital....

Despite ambitions of overtaking the dollar, China's central bank will have a hard time monitoring all the transactions involved in a CBDC, though commercial banks might lend a hand. There are technical limits to even the most technologically ambitious of central banks.So says Sky Guo, CEO of Cypherium — an enterprise blockchain platform that has partnered with a number of Chinese cities and has worked with projected central bank digital currencies. “CBDC is definitely really hot with central banks these days,” said Guo.CBDCs are all the rage this year, largely due to a surge in fiat-pegged....

As China keeps paving the way to adopt its central bank digital currency (CBDC), scammers are also actively emerging on the scene. The police in a Chinese province are now warning about a “sophisticated” CBDC-themed scam. Bogus Platform Is Set to Be Launched in March, Say Scammers According to a post from the cybercrime unit of the Weifang police force in Shandong Province, a scam named “Central Bank’s International Wallet” is claiming to be a digital yuan wallet platform. The bogus platform seems to have caught almost 500 users as of press time. The scam....

The Agricultural Bank of China previously debuted digital yuan ATMs this January. China continues apace with the adoption of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) as major banks launch a significant batch of digital yuan-powered ATMs.The digital yuan — a CBDC controlled by The People’s Bank of China — is now available for deposit and withdrawals at over 3,000 ATMs across Beijing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Friday.According to the report, the Beijing branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has become the first bank to fully enable the digital yuan exchange in the....